Aleksandr Kabakov was a Russian writer and journalist. He was born in 1943 in Novosibirsk, where his family had been evacuated during World War II. He studied mechanics and mathematics in Dnepropetrovsk, and worked in a missile factory after graduation. Eventually, he landed at the railroad industry newspaper Gudok, where he worked for more than a decade; he also worked at Moscow News and Kommersant.
